Heaps

• Heaps are used to efficiently implement two operations: – Insert– Find Max

• Definition: A Heap is a complete binary tree with each node satisfying the heap property:– Max-heap: The key stored in the node is greater than

or equal to both keys stored in its children, if any.– Min-heap: The key stored in the node is less than or

equal to both keys stored in its children, if any.

Example of a Min-Heap and Its Implementation

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Heap Operations

• The heap data structure supports the following operations– delete_max[H] (or delete_min[H]):– insert[H,x]:– delete[H,i]:– makeheap[A]:

• Implementation of the above operations necessitates the introduction of two subprograms, viz. sift-up and sift-down.– We restrict our discussion to max-heaps.

Sift Up

• In a max-heap, if the value at a node, other than the root, becomes greater than its parent, the heap property can be restored by swapping the current node and its parent, repeating this process for the parent if necessary, until – the key at the node is less than or equal to that

of the parent.– we reach the root.

Sift Up AlgorithmProcedure Sift-UpInput: H[1..n], i where 1 i n.Output: H, where no node is greater than its parent on the path from node i to the root.

done := false; if i = 1 then exit; /* Node i is the root */ repeat if key(H[i]) > key(H[i/2]) then swap(H[i],H[i/2]); else done := true; end if; i := i/2; until i=1 or done;

Example

Sift-Down

• In a max-heap, if the value at a node becomes less than the key of any of its children, the heap property can be restored by swapping the current node and the child with maximum key value, repeating this process if necessary until – the key at the node is greater than or equal to

the keys of both children.– we reach a leaf.

Sift-Down AlgorithmProcedure Sift-Down Input: H[1..n], i where 1 i n.Output: H[i] is percolated down, if needed, so that it’s not smaller than its children.

done := false; if (2*i) > n then exit; { is a leaf node } repeat i = 2*i; if (i+1) n and key(H[i+1]) > key(H[i]) then i := i+1; if key(H[i/2]) < key(H[i]) then swap(H[i],H[i/2]); else done := true; end if; until 2*i > n or done;

Example

Insertion into a Heap• To insert an element x into a heap:

– Increase the size of the heap by 1– Append x to the end of the heap– Run the Sift-Up algorithm on x.

Algorithm insertInput: A heap H[1..n] & a heap element x.

Output: A new heap H[1..n+1] with x being one of its elements.1. n := n + 1;2. H[n] := x;3. Sift-Up(H, n);

• The cost of this operation in the worst case is:

Deletion from a HeapAlgorithm DeleteInput: A nonempty heap H[1..n] and i where 1 i n.Output: H[1..n-1] after H[i] is removed.1. x := H[i]; y := H[n];2. n := n – 1;3. if i = n+1 then exit4. H[i] := y;5. if key(y) key(x) then 6 Sift-Up(H, i)7. else Sift-Down(H, i) end if

• The cost of deletion, in the worst case, is:

Delete-Max

• What is the algorithm for deleting the maximum element?

Make-Heap Algorithm

• Work from high end of array to low end.• Call SiftDown for each item.• Don’t need to call SiftDown on leaf nodes.

Algorithm Make-HeapInput: Array A[1..n] of n elementsOutput: Max-heap A[1..n]

for i= n/2 downto 1 SiftDown(A,i); end for;

Make-Heap Cost

• Cost for heap construction:

Heap-Sort

• Using previous operations, one can develop a sorting algorithm for an array of n elements.

• What is the cost of this sorting technique?

Disjoint Sets Data Structures• Objective

Study a data structure that can represent disjoint sets and support operations related to the manipulation of disjoint sets in an efficient manner.

– Disjoint-Sets Representation: Parent-Pointer

Implementation

– Disjoint-Sets Operations: Union/Find

Parent Pointer Implementation For Forests

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Equivalence Class Problem

• The parent pointer representation is good for:– Answering Q: “Do these two elements belong to the

same equivalence class?”– Efficiently compute the union of two equivalence classes

• Hence, the parent pointer implementation supports the above two important functionalities for disjoint sets efficiently.

Find

Union

Union/Find

int FIND(int curr){ while (parent[curr]!= 0) curr = parent[curr]; return curr; // At root}

void UNION(int a, int b) { int root1 = FIND(a); // Find root for a int root2 = FIND(b); // Find root for b if (root1 != root2) parent[root1] = root2;}

Example 1

• Carry out the Union-Find algorithm for the following set of equivalences assuming there are 8 objects indexed by the values 1 through 8.

(1,2) , (1,3) , (2,4) , (4,5) , (6,7) , (8,7)

• What do you notice regarding the number of comparisons for carrying out the Union-Find operations?

Improving Union-Find Algorithms

• Union-By-Rank Heuristic

• Path Compression

Union by Rank Heuristic

• Objective: Want to keep the depth small.

• Procedure: To carry out the union of the two trees rooted at x and y, respectively, make the root node of the tree with higher rank the root of the Union tree with one of its children being the root node of the other tree.– The rank is the height of each node in the tree– When the ranks of the two root nodes are equal, make

the root of the second tree the parent of the root of the first tree.

Path Compression

• In order to reduce the height of the tree further, during the FIND(x) operation, we can make each node on the path from x up to the child of the root all point to the root. This is called path compression

int FIND(int curr) { if (parent[curr] == 0) return curr; return parent[curr]=FIND(parent[curr]);

}

Example 2• Using the union-by-rank heuristic and path

compression, show the result from the following series of equivalences on a set of objects indexed by the values 1 through 16, assuming initially that each element in the set is in an equivalence class containing it alone. When the ranks of the two trees are equal, make the root of the tree containing the second object to be the root of the tree:

(1,3) (2,3) (4,5) (4,2) (10,12) (13,15) (13,10) (7,8) (9,11) (8,15) (11, 2) (4,7) (9,13)

Pop Quiz #4• Using the union-by-rank heuristic and path

compression, show the result from the following series of equivalences on a set of objects indexed by the values 1 through 10, assuming initially that each element in the set is in an equivalence class containing it alone. When the ranks of the two trees are equal, make the root of the tree containing the second object to be the root of the tree:

(1,2) (3,4) (5,6) (7,8) (9,10) (2,4) (6,8) (2,6) (1,9)

Analysis of Union and Find Using Union By Rank Heuristic

• Theorem: rank(parent(x)) rank(x) + 1.• Proof:

• Theorem: The value of rank(x) is initially zero and increases in subsequent union operations until x is no longer a root. Once x becomes a child of another node, its rank never changes.

• Proof:

• Lemma: The number of nodes in a tree with root x is at least 2rank(x) .

• Proof:

• Theorem: A sequence of m interspersed union-by-rank and find operations costs O(m log n )

• Proof:

Time Complexity of Union and Find Using Union By Rank and Path

Compression Heuristics• Theorem: A sequence of m interspersed

union-by-rank and find operations using path compression costs O(m log* n) operations, wherelog* n = min {i | log log …log n 1} for n > 1

= 0 for n=0,1

• Proof: Out of the scope of an undergraduate course!

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